BY
LEWIS MORRIS
OF PENBRYN
M.A.; HONORARY FELLOW OF JESUS COLLEGE, OXFORD
KNIGHT OF THE REDEEMER OF GREECE, ETC., ETC.
"FIDE ET AMORE"
LONDON
KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH & CO., 1, PATERNOSTER SQUARE
1883
(The rights of translation and of reproduction are reserved.)
PREFACE.
After a silence of more than three years, due to otherengrossing occupations, the writer once more appeals tohis readers with a volume in which the leading featuresof his former works will probably be found combined.The story of "Odatis" is derived from Athenæus. Thatof "Clytæmnestra in Paris" follows accurately, in allmatters of fact, the evidence given in the well-knownFenayrou trial of August, 1882. The "Three BretonPoems" are from the "Barzaz Breiz." One of them,"The Foster Brother," has, as the author has learntsince his version was written, already appeared in avolume of Translations from the same source, publishedsome years ago.
PENBRYN, CARMARTHEN,
October, 1883.
CONTENTS.
Pictures—I.
The Lesson of Time
Vendredi Saint
"No more, no more"
The New Creed
A Great Gulf
One Day
Seasons
The Pathos of Art
In the Strand
Coelum non Animum
Niobe
Pictures—II.
A Night in Naples
Life
Cradled in Music
Odatis
In Wild Wales—
I.—At the Eisteddfod
II.—At the Meeting Field
Suffrages
Look out, O Love
Saint Christopher
Pictures—III.
Confession
Love Unchanged
Clytæmnestra in Paris
At the End
Three Breton Poems—
I.—The Orphan Girl of Lannion
II.—The Foster Brother
III.—Azenor
Above the abysmal undivided deep
A train of glory streaming from afar;
And in the van, to wake the worlds from sleep,
One on whose forehead shines the Morning-Star.
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Long-rolling surges of a falling sea,
Smiting the sheer cliffs of an unknown shore;
And by a fanged